I heard about this this morning, but forgot it by the time I got to my computer....
About those lobbyists whom Obama has precluded from working in his administration? He'll just waive that ban if he wants one of them.
“The Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has removed an obstacle to the confirmation of [Raytheon lobbyist] Bill Lynn to be Deputy Secretary of Defense by waiving the provisions of President Obama’s Executive Order on Ethics Commitments that would have precluded Mr. Lynn’s service.
Indeed. As Spencer Ackerman says: “Why put this rule out if deputy cabinet secretaries are exempt from it? Appropriately, this release was sent out at 4:46 p.m. on a Friday. Change we can believe in!”
"The decision of the Administration to impose an additional set of requirements, and then waive them for this nominee, does not change the standards to which we hold all nominees," [Carl] Levin said.
Standards which are at least as high as the ones the administration is using, eh?
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